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Fifty years of plant research

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Over the past 50 years the present Division of Plant Industry has evolved from relatively modest beginnings as the Division of Economic Botany with a brief to undertake basic research in plant sciences, to a Division whose work now touches on many aspects of crop and pasture plants, as well as the natural vegetation of Australia.

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  1. Duncan, R. C., Aust. J. agric. Econ., 16, 153–68 (1972).

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Evans, L. Fifty years of plant research. Nature 261, 655–657 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261655a0

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